S43B:
Imaging the Earth IX Imaging Seismic Anisotropy and Attenuation + Theoretical Developments Posters

Session ID#: 4256

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Monica Maceira, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Michael Afanasiev, ETH Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland
Primary Convener:  Monica Maceira, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Co-conveners:  Andreas Fichtner, ETH Zurich, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland, Paula Koelemeijer, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland and Carene S Larmat, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Andreas Fichtner, ETH Zurich, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • DI - Study of the Earth's Deep Interior
  • T - Tectonophysics
Index Terms:

7208 Mantle [SEISMOLOGY]
7218 Lithosphere [SEISMOLOGY]
7270 Tomography [SEISMOLOGY]
7290 Computational seismology [SEISMOLOGY]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Characterizing Uncertainty

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Body-wave Attenuation in the South-Central Region of the Gulf of California, México (2698)
Raul Ramon Castro1,2, Claudia A Vidales-Basurto2, Carlos I Huerta3, Danielle F Sumy4, James B Gaherty5 and John A Collins6, (1)CICESE Seismology, San Diego, CA, United States, (2)CICESE, Sismologia, Ensenada, Mexico, (3)University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Civil Engineering and Surveying, Mayaguez, PR, United States, (4)National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., United States, (5)Columbia University in the City of New York, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, (6)WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States
 
An Objective Rationale for the Choice of Regularisation Parameter with Application to Global Multiple-Frequency S-Wave Tomography (6727)
Christophe Zaroli, Université de Strasbourg, EOST/CNRS, Institut Terre et Environnement de Strasbourg, UMR 7063, Strasbourg Cedex, France, Malcolm Sambridge, Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, Australia, Jean-Jacques Leveque, Institut de Physique du Globe Strasbourg, Strasbourg Cedex, France, Eric Debayle, LGLTPE Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon : Terre, Planètes et Environnement, Villeurbanne Cedex, France and Guust Nolet, GeoAzur, Valbonne, France
 
Attenuation Tomography of the Upper Mantle (5869)
Alice Adenis1, Eric Debayle1 and Yanick R Ricard2, (1)LGLTPE Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon : Terre, Planètes et Environnement, Villeurbanne Cedex, France, (2)Univ Lyon, ENSL, UCBL, UJM, CNRS, LGL-TPE, Lyon, France
 
Global S-Wave Tomography Using Receiver Pairs: An Alternative to Get Rid of Earthquake Mislocation (6742)
J-Jacques Leveque, EOST École et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre, Strasbourg Cedex, France; CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, Christophe Zaroli, Université de Strasbourg, EOST/CNRS, Institut Terre et Environnement de Strasbourg, UMR 7063, Strasbourg Cedex, France, Bernhard S. A. Schuberth, Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität, München, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Munich, Germany, Zacharie Duputel, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Guust Nolet, GeoAzur, Valbonne, France
 
Sensitivity of Coda Waves to Lateral Variations of Absorption and Scattering: Radiative Transfer Theory and 2-D Examples (6506)
Jessie Mayor1, Ludovic Margerin1 and Marie Calvet2, (1)IRAP - Universite de Toulouse, Toulouse, France, (2)Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, CNRS, Toulouse, France
 
New Zealand-Wide 3-D Qp Attenuation Model: Low Qp North Island Crust Contrasts with High Qp South Island Terranes (10660)
Donna Eberhart-Phillips, University of California Davis, Earth and Planetary Science, Davis, CA, United States, Martin Reyners, GNS Science-Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Ltd, Lower Hutt, New Zealand and Stephen C Bannister, GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
 
Anisotropic Shear Velocity Models of the North American Upper Mantle Based on Waveform Inversion and Numerical Wavefield Computations. (8471)
Clouzet Pierre, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, Yder Masson, INRIA, Bordeaux, France, Barbara A Romanowicz, University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States, Scott W French, Univ. of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Dr. Huaiyu Yuan, Macquarie University, CCFS, Sydney, NSW, Australia
 
Sn Attenuation in the Iranian and Tibetan Plateaus (10623)
Wenfei Ku, University of Missouri Columbia, Columbia, MO, United States, Ayoub Kaviani, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, Xueyang Bao, University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States, James Christopher, Geological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, United States and Eric A Sandvol, University of Missouri, Department of Geological Sciences, Columbia, United States
 
Numerical Solution of Poroelastic Wave Equation Using Nodal Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Method (7876)
Khemraj Shukla1, Yanqiu Wang1 and Priyank Jaiswal2, (1)Oklahoma State University Main Campus, Stillwater, OK, United States, (2)Oklahoma State University, Boone Pickens School of Geology, Stillwater, OK, United States
 
Anisotropy in the Pacific Upper Mantle from Inversion of a Combined Global and Regional Dispersion Dataset (11102)
Celia L Eddy1, Goran Ekstrom1, Meredith Nettles2 and James B Gaherty1, (1)Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States
 
Solving the 3D Acoustic Wave-equation on Generalized Structured Meshes: A FDTD Approach (11974)
Jeffrey C Shragge, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
 
Three-dimensional Distribution of Azimuthal and Radial Anisotropy in the Japan Subduction (15585)
Motoko Ishise1, Hitoshi Kawakatsu1 and Katsuhiko Shiomi2, (1)Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (2)NIED National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Tsukuba, Japan
 
Seismic Attenuation beneath Tateyama Volcano, Central Japan (13014)
Koji Iwata1, Hironori Kawakata1 and Issei Doi2, (1)Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Japan, (2)Kyoto University, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto, Japan
 
A radial anisotropy model of the upper mantle from surface wave observations (13375)
Tak Ming Ho1, Eric Debayle2, Keith F Priestley1 and Chris H Chapman3, (1)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2)LGLTPE, Univ. Lyon 1, ENS Lyon and CNRS, Lyon, France, (3)Schlumberger Gould Research Center, Cambridge, United Kingdom
 
2D Global Attenuation Model of the Upper Mantle from Combined Analysis of Surface Wave Phase and Amplitude Data (13432)
Zhitu Ma, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States and Guy Masters, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
Computing Sensitivity Kernels of Noise Correlations with Respect to Noise Sources (9164)
Laurent Stehly, ISTerre Institute of Earth Sciences, Grenoble, France, Ludovic Margerin, IRAP - Universite de Toulouse, Toulouse, France and Pierre Boué, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, ISTerre, Grenoble, France
 
Empirical sensitivity kernels of noise correlations with respect to virtual sources (13750)
Pierre Boué1, Laurent Stehly2, Nori Nakata3 and Gregory C Beroza3, (1)Université Grenoble Alpes, ISTerre, Grenoble, France, (2)ISTerre Institute of Earth Sciences, Grenoble, France, (3)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
 
Cross-gradient Constrained Seismic Velocity and Attenuation Tomography of the Aftershock Zone of the 2013 Mw 6.6 Lushan Earthquake, China (14418)
Xin Zhang, USTC University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China and Haijiang Zhang, University of Science and Technology of China, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Hefei, China
 
Application of Time-window Selection Method in Tomography with Topographic Effects (14594)
Erdi Wei, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, Wei Zhang, Southern University of Science and Technology, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Shenzhen, China and Xiaofei Chen, USTC University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
 
Qs-values in the Southern Korean Peninsula Area (22848)
Inho Kim1,2, Meng Ju Lee2, Hyun-Moo Cho3 and Dong Hun Lee2, (1)KIGAM Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Daejeon, South Korea, (2)Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea, Republic of (South), (3)KIGAM Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Earthquake Research Center, Daejeon, South Korea
 
Seismic Velocity and Attenuation Tomography of the Tonga Arc and Lau Back-arc Basin (11104)
Songqiao Shawn Wei, Michigan State University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States, Yang Zha, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Douglas A Wiens, Washington University in St Louis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, MO, United States and Spahr C Webb, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Comparison of misfit functions for phase-only inversion in the frequency domain (15638)
Gangwon Jeong1, Woodon Jeong1 and Dong-Joo Min2, (1)Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Seoul National University, Energy Systems Engineering, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South)
 
Parameterization of density estimation in full waveform well-to-well tomography (16178)
Keisuke Teranishi1, Hitoshi Mikada1, Tada-nori Goto2 and Junichi Takekawa1, (1)Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, (2)University of Hyogo, Hyogo, Japan
 
Teleseismic Body-Wave Attenuation beneath the Western and Central United States (17632)
Bin Yang1, Cory A Reed2, Kelly Hong Liu2 and Stephen S Gao2, (1)Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, United States, (2)Missouri University of Science and Technology, Geology and Geophysics Program, Rolla, MO, United States
 
Synthetic normal-mode spectra: a full-coupling perspective (20639)
Hsin-Ying Yang, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan and Jeroen Tromp, Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
Apply Seismic Migration Technique to Teleseismic Receiver Functions (21174)
Shaoqian Hu, Saint Louis University Main Campus, Saint Louis, MO, United States and Lupei Zhu, Saint Louis University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Geospatial Science, Saint Louis, United States
 
Waveform Inversion of Synthetic Ocean Models in the Laplace Domain (21266)
Hayley Rosado1, Tanya M Blacic1, Hyunggu Jun2 and Changsoo Shin3, (1)Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, United States, (2)Kyungpook National University, Geology, Daegu, Korea, Republic of (South), (3)Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South)
 
A New Method to Minimize the Influence of Lateral Heterogeneity on Inversion Applying Triplicated Phases (12775)
Jiaqi Li1, Chen Cai2, Dou Kang1 and Jieyuan Ning1, (1)School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China, (2)Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States
 
Waveform inversion schemes for 3D density structure (15171)
Nienke Blom, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom and Andreas Fichtner, ETH Zurich, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland
 
The impact of crustal density variations on seismic wave propagation (22074)
Agnieszka Plonka, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands and Andreas Fichtner, ETH Zurich, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland
 
High Resolution Models of Regional Phase Attenuation and Velocity Structure of the Turkish-Iranian Plateau and Zagros (28393)
Ayoub Kaviani1, Eric A Sandvol2, Xueyang Bao3, Rengin Gok4 and Georg Rumpker1, (1)Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, (2)University of Missouri, Department of Geological Sciences, Columbia, United States, (3)Brown University, Department of Geological Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, (4)LLNL, Livermore, United States
 
Frequency dependent Lg attenuation in Northeast China and Korean Peninsula (14141)
Nishath R Ranasinghe1, Andrea C Conley nee Gallegos2, Andrea R Trujillo1, Alexander Robert Blanchette3, Thomas M Hearn1, Eric A Sandvol4, James Ni5, Stephen P Grand6, Fenglin Niu7, Yongshun John Chen8, Jieyuan Ning9, Hitoshi Kawakatsu10, Satoru Tanaka11 and Masayuki Obayashi12, (1)New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States, (2)New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, United States, (3)Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, (4)University of Missouri, Department of Geological Sciences, Columbia, United States, (5)New Mexico State University Main Campus, Las Cruces, NM, United States, (6)University of Texas, Austin, United States, (7)University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Anhui, China, (8)Southern University of Science and Technology, Department of Ocean Science and Engineering, Shenzhen, China, (9)Peking University, Beijing, China, (10)Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (11)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (12)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Research Institute for Marine Geodynamics, Kanagawa, Japan
 
Sn Attenuation Model in Tibetan Region and its Geodynamic Implications to Plateau Formation (14527)
Prof. Lianfeng Zhao1, Xiao-Bi Xie2, Na Fan1 and ZhenXing Yao3, (1)IGG Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, United States, (3)Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory of Earth and Planetary Physics, Beijing, China
 
A highly attennuative zone beneath the Tokyo Metropolitan area. (14585)
Yannis Panayotopoulos1, Naoshi Hirata1, Shin'ichi Sakai2, Shigeki Nakagawa1 and Keiji Kasahara3, (1)Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (2)Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (3)Association for the Development of Earthquake Prediction, Tokyo, Japan
 
Imaging the Juan de Fuca subduction plate using 3D Kirchoff Prestack Depth Migration (17302)
Cheng Cheng, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Thomas Bodin, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, Richard M Allen, University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States and Benoit Tauzin, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Université Jean Monnet, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon: Terre, Planètes, Environnement, Villeurbanne, France
 
Hybrid optimization methods for Full Waveform Inversion (17324)
Debanjan Datta, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States and Mrinal K Sen, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
 
Data inversion immune to cycle-skipping using AWI (18356)
Lluis Guasch, Mike Warner, Adrian Umpleby, Gang Yao and Joanna V Morgan, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
 
Shear-wave splitting across the central Appalachian Mountains using USARRAY and PASEIS data (18607)
Austin White-Gaynor, Andrew Nyblade and Kyle Homman, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States
 
ASDF: A New Adaptable Data Format for Seismology Suitable for Large-Scale Workflows (21299)
Lion Krischer, Mondaic AG, Munich, Switzerland, James A Smith, Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, Alessandro Spinuso, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, 3730, Netherlands and Jeroen Tromp, Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
Crustal and Mantle Structure Beneath the Iles Eparses (Mozambique Channel, Indian Ocean) (21642)
Fabrice R. Fontaine, Université de La Réunion, Laboratoire GéoSciences Réunion, IPG Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, UMR 7154 CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, Saint Denis, Reunion, Guilhem Barruol, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, CNRS (UMR 7154), 1 rue Jussieu, 75238 Paris Cedex 05, France, Paris, France, Céline Davy, Université de La Réunion, Laboratoire Géosciences, Saint Denis, Reunion, Vera S N Schlindwein, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany and Karin Sigloch, University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom
 
Surface Wave Scattering and Mode Coupling: Implications for Surface Wave Tomography (21690)
Arjun Datta, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune, Department of Earth and Climate Science, Pune, India, Keith F Priestley, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom and Chris H Chapman, Schlumberger Gould Research Center, Cambridge, United Kingdom
 
Seismic Attenuation Structure beneath Harrat Lunayyir, northern Arabian shield (21716)
Nassir Saad Al-Arifi1, Sami El khrepy1,2, Ivan Koulakov3 and I Sychev4, (1)King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, (2)National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, NRIAG, seismology, Cairo,helwan, Egypt, (3)IPGG SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia, (4)Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics SB RAS, Prospekt Koptyuga, 3, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation, Prospekt Koptyuga, RI, Russia
 
TOTAL-FIELD/SCATTERED-FIELD TECHNIQUE FOR 3-D MODELING OF SHORT PERIOD TELESEISMIC WAVES (22369)
Vadim Monteiller, GeoAzur, Valbonne, France, Stephen Beller, Géoazur, Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, IRD, OCA, Valbonne, France, Stephane Operto, University of Côte d'Azur, Nice, France, Tarje Nissen-Meyer, University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom, Josue Tago Pacheco, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico and Jean Virieux, University Joseph Fourier Grenoble, Grenboble, France
 
CHINA AMPLITUDE TOMOGRAPHY (27069)
Thomas M Hearn, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States
 
Seismic Attenuation Tomography of the Rupture Zone of the 2010 Maule, Chile, Earthquake (27637)
Megan E Torpey, Univ of FL-Geological Sciences, Gainesville, FL, United States, Raymond M Russo, University of Florida, Geological Sciences, Gainesville, United States and Mark P Panning, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
 
Accuracy and Stability of the Interior-Penalty Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Acoustic and Elastic Wave Propagation (27721)
Jonas D De Basabe, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, San Diego, CA, United States; CICESE National Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Mexico, Seismology, Ensenada, Mexico
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